The Computer...

[calliopes_pen]

Dad's going to try to buy a new hard drive--and then, ask someone to teach him how to fix it. He also gave me a piece of paper that tells the error message that shows up--just in case anyone here can help fix it.

It says this: "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl +Alt +Del to restart."

Unfortunately, when you do what that says to do, nothing happens. It won't even restart.


And this section is just for me to try to find later on. For when/if the computer is fixed. I'll add more to the list as I think of it.

-Try to find a certain site that had information I was using for the Persephone application. And rewrite that application. ETA: Found the site ! Or at least the main site I used. And here is another.
-Go to sv_inquiry, and find the Smallville stories I found through there.
-Read through my old ship_manifesto essays that I posted. I think I might find a few links that way.
-Go to liviapenn's journal, and find those Blue Beetle icons she made for me again.
-Find all the Catwoman/Michelle Pfeiffer icons that I had found the other day, resave them.

Comments

[dark-wesley.livejournal.com]

Basically, the problem with the old hard drive is just what you thought it was-- so much data was saved to it that now the operating system can't find the special files it needs to read the drive properly (rule of thumb is to keep 10% of the drive's total space free at a minimum). A new really huge capacity hard drive shouldn't be too terribly expensive, depending on your budget. There's nothing physically wrong with the old one-- it just needs to be repartitioned and reformatted. A suggestion I might make is to use the old, smaller drive for your operating system and all programs, while any files (graphics, documents, movies) could go on the second, bigger drive. That way if a certain someone again dl's enough to crash the hard drive, it won't take your operating system and programs with it.